Professional Reading Shelf
Libraries–United States–Law Enforcement Activities
Source: American Library Association
Impact and Analysis of Law Enforcement Activity in Academic and Public Libraries (PDF; 224 KB)
From press release: “The American Library Association (ALA)…released complete findings from its survey measuring law enforcement activity in America’s libraries. Preliminary findings, released in June, revealed that at least 137 legally executed requests by federal and state/local law enforcement in both academic and public libraries have taken place since October, 2001 – 63 legally executed requests for records in public libraries and 74 such requests in academic libraries. The full report of survey findings includes contextual data including responses to interviews and an appendix containing the survey instrument.”
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Digital Repositories
Source: JISC
Digital Repositories: Helping universities and colleges
Two new papers.
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Internet
Source: FCW
NSF announces program to create a new Internet
“NSF officials said they envision the creation of new network architectures that will be more secure, easier to use and more beneficial to society. GENI [Global Environment for Networking Investigations] will ‘enable the vision of pervasive computing and bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks,’ according to an NSF fact sheet.”
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Information Industry–LexisNexis
Source: Information Today
New LexisNexis ContentGuard Verifies Content Originality
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Web Archives
Source: Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus (via SEPW Blog)
Archiving Websites. General Considerations and Strategies

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